- Wikis for differentiation
- How to Create a Weebly
- Free Technology Speed Geeking
- 21 Signs You're a 21st Century Teacher
- Top 25 Websites
- Educational Blogs
- Useful PDF resources
- Helpful Wiki for differentiation
- More Resources
- Even More Resources!
- RTI using Technology
- Multiple Intelligences
- Glogster
- Prezi
- Web 2.0 Storytelling
- eSchool News
- iPad Info
- PhET Simulations
- Pay Attention
- A Day in the Salt Marsh
- A Day on the Mountain
- Critical Thinking/ HLT
- Top 40 Web 2.0 Sites with Educational Portal - April 6, 2014 by David Kapuler
- 2014-2015 DI Resources
- Top 50 Sites/Apps for 2015
Free Resources: (for classrooms to use for differentiated instruction)
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Curriki helps connect educators, parents, and students in the development of curriculum and other educational materials. With its open-source curriculum format, Curriki allows anyone to post their teaching ideas for others to view, download, use, reformat, and reshare.
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FREE, or Federal Resources for Educational Excellence, is a U.S. Department of Education website that compiles free teacher resources available from dozens of federal agencies. Educators can sign up for the FREE RSS feed, which notifies users when new resources are added. Otherwise, they can browse by topic, from music history to life sciences.
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The Library of Congress’ “For Teachers” page highlights ready-to-use classroom materials that are aligned with state standards and take advantage of the Library’s primary sources. It includes access to primary source sets around topics such as U.S. presidents; short facts or activities for class starters, such as “Today in History” and everyday science mysteries; themed lesson plans for dozens of topics; and even professional development curriculum.
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The NASA for Educators page includes featured articles with information about NASA’s various missions; image galleries on a wide variety of topics; information about NASA careers, internships, fellowships, and scholarships; NASA-produced multimedia materials; and more. An Education Materials Finder will help teachers locate NASA resources that can be used in the classroom; users can search by keywords, grade level, product type, and subject. With hundreds of publications and websites indexed, the finder is the best way to locate NASA educational resources, the agency says.
Have you heard of Adobe Education Exchange? I just joined it for free. The Adobe Education Exchange is an online meeting place that provides a wealth of ready-to-use teaching and learning material. The Exchange is full of free resources for helping K–12 students develop the workforce skills and industry-standard software proficiency they need to succeed in higher education or on the job. Here is the link:http://direct.adobe.com/v?xnHWJcPEJcPPclHT
http://direct.adobe.com/v?xnHWJcPEJcPPclHT
_Qtopia:
Ever hear of a website called QTopia? Qtopia provides free online access to thousands of ready-to-use activities, motivating games, avatar features, 24/7 online homework access with automatic grading, in-classroom review modes, and the ability for educators to use ‘as is’ or completely customize the learning experience. Wonder if we could implement them into our curriculum or just get ideas to assist us? Here is the link: http://www.qtopia.com/
http://doyouhavethisapp.blogspot.com/
http://www.readinga-z.com/
Teachers nominated their favorite free online resources for the EdNET’s Best Teachers Select Award.
http://community.weareteachers.com/t5/EdNET-s-Best-for-2011-Teachers/idb-p/EdNET2011TeachersSelect
Reading A-Z offers thousands of printable teacher materials to teach leveled reading, phonemic awareness, reading comprehension, reading fluency, alphabet, and vocabulary. The teaching resources include professionally developed downloadable leveled books, lesson plans, worksheets, and reading assessments.
http://educationaltechnologyguy.blogspot.com/
Skype in the classroom is a free global community that invites teachers to collaborate on classroom projects where they might use Skype, and share skills and inspiration around specific teaching needs.
Teachers all over the world are using Skype to make learning more exciting and memorable. It's easy to see why: Skype offers an immediate way to help students discover new cultures, languages and ideas, all without leaving the classroom.
http://education.skype.com/about
Using iPods to Increase Reading Comprehension
http://thejournal.com/articles/2011/03/14/using-ipods-to-increase-reading-comprehension.aspx
https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/10997
For Gifted:
http://giftedkids.about.com/od/gifted101/l/bright_gifted.htm
A comparison chart of high ability, gifted learners, and creative thinkers developed by Dr. Bertie Kingore. Note the motivation 2nd to last row.
http://personal.ecu.edu/housandb/60in60/Confratute_2011.html
U. Conn just had their conference called Confratute, and Brian Housand's presentation was called "60 Tech Tools in 60 Minutes". Here is a link to the 60 tools, as well as an article by Tamara Fisher talking about some of the resources highlighted in the presentation. SSee article llnk below:
http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted/2011/07/how_to_access_60_tech_tools_in.html
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Curriki helps connect educators, parents, and students in the development of curriculum and other educational materials. With its open-source curriculum format, Curriki allows anyone to post their teaching ideas for others to view, download, use, reformat, and reshare.
3.
FREE, or Federal Resources for Educational Excellence, is a U.S. Department of Education website that compiles free teacher resources available from dozens of federal agencies. Educators can sign up for the FREE RSS feed, which notifies users when new resources are added. Otherwise, they can browse by topic, from music history to life sciences.
4.
The Library of Congress’ “For Teachers” page highlights ready-to-use classroom materials that are aligned with state standards and take advantage of the Library’s primary sources. It includes access to primary source sets around topics such as U.S. presidents; short facts or activities for class starters, such as “Today in History” and everyday science mysteries; themed lesson plans for dozens of topics; and even professional development curriculum.
5.
The NASA for Educators page includes featured articles with information about NASA’s various missions; image galleries on a wide variety of topics; information about NASA careers, internships, fellowships, and scholarships; NASA-produced multimedia materials; and more. An Education Materials Finder will help teachers locate NASA resources that can be used in the classroom; users can search by keywords, grade level, product type, and subject. With hundreds of publications and websites indexed, the finder is the best way to locate NASA educational resources, the agency says.
- The National Science Digital Library is the nation’s online library for education and research in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. It provides free math lessons and activities aligned with the Math Common Core Standards, as well as STEM-related blogs and other free teacher resources and lesson plan ideas. Targeted for K-12 teachers, higher-education professionals, and librarians, NSDL also provides science literary maps and iTunes multimedia files.
- Online professional development, TV programming and multimedia web content, lesson plan ideas, and ways to connect with other educators are all things featured on the PBS Teachers page. The website also features news and and webinars for teachers to view.
- Teachers’ Domain offers free digital media from public TV broadcasters for educational use. Users can search for materials via individual state standards, Common Core State Standards, or national standards from different organizations. Website users can create online profiles in order to share the resources they have learned for a particular lesson with others.
- For over a decade, TeAchnology has been providing free and easy-to-use resources for teachers, including “Teacher Timesavers” to help educators better organize. The site also features 42,000-plus lesson plans, 9,000 free printable worksheets, rubrics, teaching tips, web quests, and other free teacher resources.
- Thinkfinity is a free digital learning platform from the Verizon Foundation that offers comprehensive teaching and learning resources created by content partners such as the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, the International Reading Association, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, the National Geographic Society, and more. Its content includes interactive student games, lesson plans focused on various themes, education blogs and online discussions, and much more.
Have you heard of Adobe Education Exchange? I just joined it for free. The Adobe Education Exchange is an online meeting place that provides a wealth of ready-to-use teaching and learning material. The Exchange is full of free resources for helping K–12 students develop the workforce skills and industry-standard software proficiency they need to succeed in higher education or on the job. Here is the link:http://direct.adobe.com/v?xnHWJcPEJcPPclHT
http://direct.adobe.com/v?xnHWJcPEJcPPclHT
_Qtopia:
Ever hear of a website called QTopia? Qtopia provides free online access to thousands of ready-to-use activities, motivating games, avatar features, 24/7 online homework access with automatic grading, in-classroom review modes, and the ability for educators to use ‘as is’ or completely customize the learning experience. Wonder if we could implement them into our curriculum or just get ideas to assist us? Here is the link: http://www.qtopia.com/
http://doyouhavethisapp.blogspot.com/
http://www.readinga-z.com/
Teachers nominated their favorite free online resources for the EdNET’s Best Teachers Select Award.
http://community.weareteachers.com/t5/EdNET-s-Best-for-2011-Teachers/idb-p/EdNET2011TeachersSelect
Reading A-Z offers thousands of printable teacher materials to teach leveled reading, phonemic awareness, reading comprehension, reading fluency, alphabet, and vocabulary. The teaching resources include professionally developed downloadable leveled books, lesson plans, worksheets, and reading assessments.
http://educationaltechnologyguy.blogspot.com/
Skype in the classroom is a free global community that invites teachers to collaborate on classroom projects where they might use Skype, and share skills and inspiration around specific teaching needs.
Teachers all over the world are using Skype to make learning more exciting and memorable. It's easy to see why: Skype offers an immediate way to help students discover new cultures, languages and ideas, all without leaving the classroom.
http://education.skype.com/about
Using iPods to Increase Reading Comprehension
http://thejournal.com/articles/2011/03/14/using-ipods-to-increase-reading-comprehension.aspx
https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/10997
For Gifted:
http://giftedkids.about.com/od/gifted101/l/bright_gifted.htm
A comparison chart of high ability, gifted learners, and creative thinkers developed by Dr. Bertie Kingore. Note the motivation 2nd to last row.
http://personal.ecu.edu/housandb/60in60/Confratute_2011.html
U. Conn just had their conference called Confratute, and Brian Housand's presentation was called "60 Tech Tools in 60 Minutes". Here is a link to the 60 tools, as well as an article by Tamara Fisher talking about some of the resources highlighted in the presentation. SSee article llnk below:
http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted/2011/07/how_to_access_60_tech_tools_in.html
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